Why does my sofa squeak

Advertisement Both ends have developed a squeak which only happens with the weight from initially sitting down. Thankfully it does not continue to make a noise from shifting positions, etc. I had the upholsterer come out and he opened the liner from underneath to check it out, but could not find any obvious problem. It does not have springs like some couches do. It is entirely made of wood framework with each section individually tied off to connect it to the next.

He said that the problem is with an area of the wood and there is no way to know which section it could be unless I have it reupholstered again. They would have to take it completely apart and apply weights to each section to find which pieces of wood to replace. Any ideas as to how to rid a wood frame of squeaks? By Glenda from TN. My son and I are wondering if you still have that couch? Also, were you able to fix the squeaking problem?

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Just like a car, squeaks never go away, and they can get worse. And, it may be a symptom of a larger problem. Its usually an easy repair, done in-house.

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Well apart from aging you will find that new sofas are a bit uncomfortable before you break them in and amongst the list of what makes them uncomfortable you will find a squeaking sound there and there. So at the factory they are trying to create a sofa that will last long and satisfy all your needs and all, they will probably make sure that the screws and all are very much tightly fit in. So the normal order of things is that when you sit down you stretch the sofas a bit and the screw loosen up but by bit.

Now when we look at the breakage we are talking about a damaged sofa. I know they say that when you get a sofa at least give it a week and break it in. However if you go too far you might actually end up breaking it which is the last part of the cause of the sound. So when something breaks in a sofa all sorts of things are bound to go wrong. Which is why you may start hearing a squeak or a creak. You will find that most sofas when you break even the left arm somehow you will affect the backrest which will affect the other arm.

When a sofa is constructed all ends are pivoted meaning the whole frame is supportive of each other, destroying or messing with any part and you apparently disrupt the whole sofa. On this point if you have a family, like kids or pets that enjoy jumping up and down on the sofa that could be a reason why your sfa is now squeaking.

I mean so many things actually affect the sofa and can break the sofa. You will find continuously putting hard pressure on any piece of furniture could actually do more harm than old age.

So if your pet likes jumping up on your sofa and your kids are also in for that habit I guess you know what you have to do. So i guess from everything that i have said about you know what to do and you know what not to do if you want your sofa to actually last you a long and safe time right.

So what we are doing here is simply finding out what could be causing the squeaking sound so we know how to fix the problem. It can really do anything really.

Try targeting where you hear the squeak loudest and press down or shale on that point so you can determine if the sound is really coming from.

So before we get started, make sure you jot down all the possible places that you hear the sound from so that we can tackle each part one by one. So once you have jotted down every spot that seems to be squeaking and creaking we move on to stage two where we start dismembering the sofa to make it easy to manage and shift.

So here we remove the mattress after turning the sofa over. Simply put this will expose the underside of the sofa and if it has a dust cover then it would be best to remove that dust cover so that we can access the inside of the couch. Now if it is a regular sofa this will be a very easy process but it may be a bit confusing if your sofa is actually a sofa bed as these come with several joints and so forth.